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Blog entries by Emma1975

Emma1975
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Oh, not again!! ROM 8:15-19 15 I don't understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I can't. I do what I don't want to - what I hate.16 I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience proves that I agree with these laws I am breaking.17...
Emma1975
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Right so, there's no point beating myself up over my transgression. What's done is done. i felt very strongly at the time that it was not what I wanted to do, and that I shouldn't, and afterwards it has been abundantly clear that those strong feelings of 'don't do this' were there for good...
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First major test. First major failure. The spirit is willing but not willing enough it would seem. I knew I would fail there. I should have avoided the situation better. But also I wanted to feel something normal, something of myself. And of course now I wish I hadn't bothered, I don't feel a...
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I'm probably overthinking this whole thing.
Emma1975
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Various books and chapters have been suggested to me, as I am reading the New Testament for the first time - being brought up and educated Catholic I have of course heard much of it in school and at Mass, but it never really occurred to me to listen - I have an online Bible study of John which...
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i am tiring from the effort of maintaining a facade of everything is wonderful. I am doubting the things that I felt had any meaning other than wishful thinking, a willingness to believe in something beautiful because of a need for it. Maybe none of it is true or real. I was much happier before...
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How has God led me into a relationship with him? I think it's been a long time coming. I think He's been influencing my life for longer than I knew. But recently I met a friend, someone I used to know a long time ago. Back then he was in a bad way, addicted to heroin. He told me when we met...